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Sphinx

01:51

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The question is nine people share 14 cupcakes what’s the answer? I hadn’t tried yet all I know is you need to do 9 divided by 14.

mathematics

Jafe

02:28

they speak french in chad and the french version of mr. would be m. for monsieur... doubt that's the right track though

oAlt

02:50

@Jafe you probably are, since key can also be island, which is île in French (in Chad), so M. Ìle ("Mr. Key" in Chad) + 's = miles (e.g. a good way off from the correct answer = miles off from the correct answer)

Cc: @msh210 just in case

msh210

03:17

@oAlt yep!

well solved, you two

oAlt

03:45

Yeah, nice find from Jafe, would have never thought of French for Chad immediately

oAlt

04:21

gonna add some local flavor

CCCC: Key you might use at first, with Duke in the middle echoing back beat for Philippine song for the holidays (14)

Sphinx

Q: Two puzzles i cant seem to break

Here are two codes i cant seem to break. I have no idea for the first one, and I found some interesting things for the second The answer is supposed to either be an english word/phrase, or a number for each Also the number in the corner of image 2 is unrelated to the puzzle Here is the imgur to t...

word visual cipher

oAlt

05:23

Frick, I made a blunder with the enumeration. Should be one more, (15)

Kinda embarrassing that a math student doesn't know how to count

CCCC: Key you might use at first, with Duke in the middle echoing back beat for Philippine song for the holidays (15)

PolygonPotpourri

K_ U M_ U_ ((-w)IT(-h) (-d)UK(-e))x2< TAP [Philippine song for the holidays] = KUMUKUTIKUTITAP?

oAlt

@PolygonPotpourri almost there! "at first" can't apply to "key" if you = U already, so you need to find an alternate justification for key cluing a K

PolygonPotpourri

@oAlt K as in the keyboard key?

...or... as in CMYK, K meaning key/black!

oAlt

@PolygonPotpourri That's the one!

PolygonPotpourri

@oAlt Nice cluing, (fifteenth letter of the alphabet)||(Key left or right of the space bar)!

oAlt

05:33

Lol thx

PolygonPotpourri

05:44

CCCC: Cooperate: End and tease egg man, master changing to expression of sympathy, for a southeast Asian city (6, 4, 7)

oAlt

I'm halfway there

@PolygonPotpourri band arse + rib eg(GM -> aw)an, GM = grandmaster and aw = expression of sympathy, for Bandar Seri Begawan

(corrected my typo, should be egg man not eg man)

PolygonPotpourri

06:28

@oAlt But are you living on a prayer?

@oAlt Exactly! I'll admit, the 'end' part had me feeling immensely guilty.

oAlt

@PolygonPotpourri hah

PolygonPotpourri

@oAlt These Bon-ding moments are exactly what makes my day so Jovi-al.

oAlt

06:44

CCCC: Chad's region's in place (3)

Jafe

_lac_

oAlt

@Jafe yep!

Oh TIL it's meant as "lake" in French (the Arabic name there translates to "the lake")

Jafe

chad itself means "lake" if i'm not mistaken

they want to make extra clear that a lake is involved

oAlt

Lol yeah

Jafe

07:18

CCCC: Quality of Chad's new position in religious service (9)

if y'all closed your chad tabs you must be new here

btw i looked at kumukutikutitap and was like "damn, not the right number of letters"

oAlt

Yeah sorry about that lol

Jafe

no worries, been there hehe

oAlt

@Jafe ma(N line)ss

Jafe

correct!

oAlt

07:38

CCCC: Divide Rhode island using 'Murican unit (4)

oAlt

07:54

Wait why is that not capitalized

It should be Rhode Island 🥴

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